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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  5/9/2021
  

  Happy Mother's Day to the Women who Turned their Grief into Political Action

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "Throughout history, and in the most difficult circumstances — especially after experiencing great personal loss — mothers have often turned their grief and despair into political action."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/19/2021
  

  The Midwest has Always Been a Site of Black Political Activism

  by Ashley Howard

  Many Americans imagine the Midwest as a white space. But in both cities and towns, and even before the Great Migration, Black Midwesterners have organized and fought for political power, civil rights, and social respect. Contemporary protests are inheritors of this legacy. 

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• 4/18/2021
  

  The Real Patriots Invaded the Nation’s Capital Fifty Years Ago

  by Elise Lemire

  On this Patriots’ Day, fifty years after a battalion of Vietnam veterans brought their anguish and their outrage to the Capitol Building, we are reminded of the idealistic threads connecting the militiamen of Lexington and Concord and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. 

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• 4/18/2021
  

  Don't Erase Women's Leadership in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement

  by Robert Cohen

  Historians have yet to fully examine the role of women in leadership and at the grass roots of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. Even some of the best and most insightful accounts of the FSM treat it as a movement of men and ignore the key roles of Jackie Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker and others. 

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• SOURCE: OutHistory
  4/13/2021
  

  "Where Perversion is Taught": The Untold History of a Gay Rights Demonstration at Bucks County Community College in 1968

  by Marc Stein

  A student protest at Bucks County (PA) Community College in 1968, sparked by the college's decision to block a speech by gay rights advocate Richard Leitsch, should be recognized as a key event in the growing movement for gay liberation. 

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• SOURCE: WWLTV
  4/9/2021
  

  Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair Stolen from Alabama Cemetery Found in New Orleans, 2 Arrested

  The chair was recovered in New Orleans, and two suspects have been arrested with a third at large. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/8/2021
  

  Who are 'White Lies Matter’? Meet the Group that Says it Turned a Stolen Confederate Memorial into a Toilet

  "We are leaderless in a sense. There is no head honcho, and we keep it that way for a very good reason."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/6/2021
  

  ‘This is Environmental Racism’: How a Protest in a North Carolina Farming Town Sparked a National Movement

  After decades of struggle with little access to resources or power, activists in the environmental justice movement have placed racial equity at the center of the President's environmental agenda.   

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Policing, Protest, and the Role of the University

  by David S. Busch

  Student activists at Northwestern, in other words, are asking a similar question that emerged out of the 1960s and famous protest moments at Jackson State and Kent State in 1970: What should be the university’s public purpose?

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/15/2021
  

  #FreeSenegal Youth Protesters are Checking Power — and Not for the First Time

  by Burleigh Hendrickson

  Student-led protests in 1968 in Senegal led to democratizing reform and the diminishment of French influence over the former colony. Will youth-led activists today be able to influence a government viewed as prioritizing the needs of foreign businesses over its own population? 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/17/2021
  

  The Future of L.A. is Here. Robin D.G. Kelley’s Radical Imagination Shows Us the Way

  Historian Robin Kelley discusses the work of his mentor Cedric Robinson, whose discussions in "Black Marxism" offer a way to circumvent the reductionist tendencies of the class- and race-oriented wings of the left today. 

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  3/1/2021
  

  Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests

  The study relies on a quantitative method that evaluates the timing of events to approximate a control-group experiment. The mechanism remains unclear, but results suggest BLM protests lead to fewer police killings. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/22/2021
  

  The Campaign to Free the Wilmington 10 Holds the Key to Successful Activism Today

  by Kenneth Janken

  A campaign to free 10 racial justice protesters in 1972 worked because it connected the cause to the problems with police, poverty, and racism experienced by a broad cross section of the community, and "recognize[d] racism not as separate from history but as part of historical processes and political economy."

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• 2/21/2021
  

  Must the Capitol Riots be Included in the Legacy of American Dissent?

  by Ralph Young

  Teachers of history might feel a disconnect between praising American traditions of dissent and condemning the Capitol riots. They shouldn't. Historical evaluation of the grievances of dissenters, whatever their methods, finds real grievances, not lies, at the root of dissent.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/17/2021
  

  Politics, Protests, and Pandemics

  Historian Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. argues in a new book on epidemics and social upheaval that disease does not inevitably sow discord and hatred; they can be sources of unification. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/10/2021
  

  Barbara Dane’s Life of Defiance and Song

  Barbara Dane's left politics kept her from success in the music industry, but the label she founded released and preserved protest music from around the world, a legacy now being highlighted by the Smithsonian. 

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• SOURCE: Liveright Publishing
  2/4/2021
  

  Liveright Conversations: Jelani Cobb, Annette Gordon-Reed, & Elizabeth Hinton

  An all-star panel discussin of the ongoing legacies of Black protest movements features Annette Gordon-Reed, Elizabeth Hinton, and Jelani Cobb. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/26/2021
  

  Out of the Barrel of a Gun

  The resurgent militia movement and renewed attention to the threat of political violence compels a reckoning with the vast number of firearms in America and with the political significance of guns. 

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• 1/17/2020
  

  Restoring Civil Society by Executive Order?: An Inaugural Reverie

  by John L. Godwin

  Joe Biden should defend the First Amendment right to peaceable assembly by a temporary emergency order criminalizing the carrying of firearms at public protest events and make clear that the threat of force is not part of the democratic process.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/15/2020
  

  After an Online ‘Onslaught’ over Exhibit on Racial Justice, a Florida Holocaust Museum Vows Not to Back Down

  A Florida Holocaust museum's decision to feature an exhibition of photographs taken during recent protests over police killings of Black Americans raised questions about the museum's mission and whether the Holocaust can be remembered and its victims honored by comparing the genocide of European Jews to other instances of systemic racism.